[PATCH v12 24/40] arm64/sme: Disable streaming mode and ZA when flushing CPU state

Mark Brown broonie at kernel.org
Fri Feb 25 08:59:07 PST 2022


Both streaming mode and ZA may increase power consumption when they are
enabled and streaming mode makes many FPSIMD and SVE instructions undefined
which will cause problems for any kernel mode floating point so disable
both when we flush the CPU state. This covers both kernel_neon_begin() and
idle and after flushing the state a reload is always required anyway.

Signed-off-by: Mark Brown <broonie at kernel.org>
Reviewed-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
---
 arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c | 9 +++++++++
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
index 2e931373b361..d21d16bb03a8 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
+++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/fpsimd.c
@@ -1742,6 +1742,15 @@ static void fpsimd_flush_cpu_state(void)
 {
 	WARN_ON(!system_supports_fpsimd());
 	__this_cpu_write(fpsimd_last_state.st, NULL);
+
+	/*
+	 * Leaving streaming mode enabled will cause issues for any kernel
+	 * NEON and leaving streaming mode or ZA enabled may increase power
+	 * consumption.
+	 */
+	if (system_supports_sme())
+		sme_smstop();
+
 	set_thread_flag(TIF_FOREIGN_FPSTATE);
 }
 
-- 
2.30.2




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